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I've seen people ride a horse to the grocery store and a canoe to the bar but I've never met a single living soul who thinks that dump is "fancy"

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

i come from Cheesecake Factory people and let me assure you, people who LIKE the Cheesecake Factory do not consider it "fancy"

There are individual cats with 3 billion views

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

truth nuke time

There are too many of these pseudo/centrist grifters whose only appeal is to CEOs who consider themselves to be socially liberal. I simply cannot keep up

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

I really really need Dems to understand that in order for us to still have a country, every single one of these people need to stand trial and go to prison for the rest of their lives

Oh cool, Turning Point UK is dabbling in assassinations

People are blowing up my phone, asking me about what happened at LA TACO. I don't have an answer. Even if I knew everything, I couldn't say why. I'm just a contributor! But the statement reads like there's clearly more to the story.

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This guy was President of hisCollege Republicans. Here he is opposing Sharia law! It is amazing how many stories of "ordinary Americans" are Republican political operatives

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social, @seanbaby.bsky.social and @brockway.bsky.social can't wait to share a lethal dosage of The Secret Man with you on our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/RvQECBJt5os

I wrote about a crucial Texas race you might not be paying attention to: who replaces Ken Paxton as Texas AG in one of the most influential such offices in the country, one Paxton has used to persecute whichever groups the GOP happens to be targeting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

This is just not an issue for anyone not addicted to Fox News or X the nothing app.

I will think about this as I do my fairly burdensome complete financial disclosures in the coming weeks required of all state employees at a certain level.

A polling firm got caught faking data. They said it was not faked, or ok, it was faked, but it was all part of some broader social experiment. Two things about academic experiments: a) you get ethical approval to minimize harms - which were real (thread). b) you pre-register expectations. Did they?

Getting so much news coverage of political candidates in states where I don't even live, but I can't name a single Republican policy that would improve someone's life. It's all about someone's religion, mom, or supposed vegan diet.

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

Coincidentally Canadian PM Carney is off to Turkey next week to ‘deepen ties’ with Erdogan, who has been increasingly intolerant of critics within Turkey, including writers like Ece Temelkuran, who is not able to attend The Vancouver Writers Festival tonight

The thing is, we are already so far past this point

god forbid i pull a national sports team to these numbers ytd and they still can't find sponsors

The only way you could have watched that video without being absolutely impressed with the matter-of-fact way AES dismantled and exposed that pitiful gotcha is for bad reasons

The fact that the two most extreme, ideological, and openly corrupt members of the Supreme Court were appointed by so-called “good” Republicans and passed through “sane” Senate approvals, demonstrates that the problem was never just Trump

you know, if i posted what i really think about this, i would probably have to go to jail

The Threads algorithm seems to be pushing every single panicked right wing post about this mailer to the main feed

For all our billionaire tech leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on it. As the midterm elections approach, reports are streaming in that suggest major social media platforms have become distinctly political in their enforcement.

it's incredibly funny that the pre-war architect of Japanese foreign policy Yosuke Matsuoka was partly raised in Portland, Oregon, graduated from the University of Oregon, and claimed his experiences there gave him a deep understanding of the American psyche.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern?: Albertans vote today to decide their future with Canada. American right-wingers have been joining Russia in promoting Albertan separatists, while accusing the Canadians of US election interference. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/republican...

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

corruption and fraud above a certain amount should be treated as seriously as murder. because fraud kills. corruption kills. when a congressman pushes a bill to, say, build a highway because they personally will make $3 million selling land for that project, we should lock them up for life.

Okay these people are clearly watching horsefucking videos nonstop. There’s something going on with the Podcast Right.

Meta also fucked with the Brazilian elections in a very similar way

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

Even among the litany of horrors this is particularly evil. Myanmar’s military is among the most evil regimes in recent history www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

pet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

I take the potential for internecine violence in this country very seriously. And I've tried to be careful with my rhetoric around this. But how long are we supposed to sit by and respond politely when the other side talks EXCLUSIVELY about killing or imprisoning our loved ones?